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A 3 page paper which examines the lives of the first people, or the Colonists in Canada. The paper also examines what an individual would perhaps miss the most if they lived in that time period. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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simplest of things we have a tendency to rely on every day in our modern world. There were no such things as groceries stores and surely no such thing as
a normal flushing toilet. The following paper examines what their lives were like, and then discusses what this particular writer would likely miss most if they lived in early Canada.
Their Lives The first people in Canada had to rely on their own hands and their own intelligence when it came to food. They had to clear land
to grow it, hunt for meat or raise their own livestock if they had it, and they gathered food from the wild. If they raised their own livestock they had
to slaughter it themselves and they also had to know how to preserve it so that it would last through the winter. They had no electricity with which to help
preserve it so they often would construct cellars to keep things cool, or would smoke meats and dry food to keep through winter. One author notes, "Fruits and vegetables were
also sold to the general store in exchange for other goods" (How the Settlers Survived, 2005). They had no electricity, as mentioned, and as such any night or early
morning activities were done with the use of candles for the most part, though some likely had oil lanterns as well. Any candles they used the made themselves. They were,
in many ways, controlled by the time of year and the amount of daylight in a day and the more northern you go in Canada the less hours of daylight
there are during long winter months. The only source of heat for people was wood and this was the only way they could cook food as well. This took
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